My Microsoft Google Yahoo Stories is an interesting blog post comparing someone’s experience interning at Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.
Every summer we hire interns for both our San Francisco and Seattle offices so it’s good to keep in mind what our competition is up to.
How do we compare:
- Free food: Yes, we have lunch catered in Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Plus we get lots of different snacks shipped in from Costco.
(Currently this is a Seattle only perk.) - Free drinks: Yes
- Favorite Perk: Friday happy hours
- Research lab: Mose works on stats research in his spare time so I guess our research lab is pretty small.
- Office type:
Two to three people per office in Seattle, in San Francisco everyone has a desk in a big open concept office.One to two people per office in Seattle (we’re in bigger offices now), in San Francisco two to three people per office and cubes (we’re in bigger offices now.) - Location: Seattle or San Francisco
- Computer Monitors: Dual 19″ LCDs
- Archnemesis:
The real estate industryA declining real estate market - Bureaucracy: None
- Biggest Fear: People don’t want to buy real estate online
- Cutting Edge App: www.redfin.com
- Favorite App: www.redfin.com
What makes us standout?
- You will ship code to customers. Our longest release cycle is two months :).
- Our team is small and so your ability to make an impact on the company is much larger
- Visibility into the business, whereas at a big company your visibility into the financials is about the same as an outside shareholder
If you’re interested in interning be sure to e-mail me your resume: matt.goyer *at* redfin.com.
Update: I made some updates on April 11th to reflect some changes around here.
Hey Matt,
I don’t know if the real estate industry is our archnemesis… I like to look at the real estate industry as a grumpy old man, and we’re the little kid running around going “why, why, why?” to everything the grumpy old man says. Sometimes we’ll get smacked around… and every so often we might get an answer.
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